Child&#39;s car seat



Feb. 9, 1960 M. I. GOLDBERG CHILD'S CAR SEAT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed D90. 9, 1958 INVENTOR.

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firromvty Feb. 9, 1960 M. GOLDBERG CHILD'S CAR SEAT 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 9, 1958 INVENTOR.

VII'IIIIIIIIIA v United States Patent CHILDS CAR SEAT Morris I. Goldberg, Waban, Mass.

Application December 9, 1958, Serial No. 779,110

1 Claim. (Cl. 155-79) This invention relates to a childs car seat such as is used for children when riding in an automobile, and the invention relates particularly to the guard member portion of a childs car seat.

An object of the invention is to provide a novel guard member which is so constructed that the child can be placed in the seat or removed therefrom through an open side of the seat structure. An advantage of this is that it obviates the necessity of lifting the child to a point entirely above the car seat and then lowering him into the seat when placing him therein. Moreover, with this invention the operation of removing a child from the seat is simplified as it involves merely the operation of moving the child sideways through the open side of the seat structure.

In the drawings wherein there is illustrated one embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a side view of a car seat embodying the I invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a rear view of the seat when in folded condition;

Fig. 4 is a side view of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5.is a fragmentary view partially in section to illustrate the manner of securing the guard-supporting member to the frame of the seat.

The seat herein shown comprises a seat frame which includes a base member 3 extending from one side to the other of the frame and having at each end the forwardly projecting, seat-supporting portion 4. The seat frame also includes two upright side members 5, one at each end of the base member 3, said uprights being rigidly connected at their lower ends to the base member and also being connected together near their upper ends by a guard-supporting member 10 on which the guard, presently to be described, is mounted, said guard-supporting member being pivotally connected to said uprights to turn about a horizontal axis. The seat element of the structure is shown at 6, and it is carried by a seat-supporting element 20 which is pivotally secured to the members 4, as shown at 7.

The structure also has a seat back 8 which is carried by a supporting element 9, the ends of which are rigidly secured to the side members 5.

The present invention relates particularly to a guard member for preventing the occupant of the seat from sliding forwardly off therefrom. This guard member is shown at 13 and it is a rigid structure having a rectangular U-shape which includes the two parallel leg members 14 and 15 and the bridge connecting portion 16. Said guard member is rigidly secured to the member 10; and

for this purpose, the leg 14 of the guard member overlies and extends lengthwise of said member 10 and is rigidly secured thereto by rivets or bolts 21. The bridge member 16 of the guard member extends at right angles to the support member 10 and the other leg 15 of the guard member extends substantially parallel to the leg 14 and has a free end 22'. The guard member may conveniently be made of metal tubing, although it may b made of any other suitable material, such as plasti material.

As stated above, the guard-supporting member 1' is pivotally secured to the uprights 5 of the seat fram to turn about a horizontal axis. In the constructio shown this is accomplished by providing each end it the support member 10 with a laterally extending por tion 11, said end portions being pivotally attached t the uprights 5 as shown at 12.

The guard member is thus mounted to swing about horizontal axis between an operative horizontal posi tion in which both legs 14 and 15 are in the same ap proximately horizontal plane and the leg 15 is locate above the front edge of the seat 6 as shown in Fig. and a folded upright position shown in Figs. 3 and 4 i which said leg 15 is located above the guard-support ing member 10. The guard member 13 is held in it operative position by a brace 23, one end of which i pivoted at 24 to the bridge portion 16 of the guar member and the other end 25 of which overlies one c the side members 5 and is secured thereto by a bolt 2t To permit the guard member to be folded said sid member 5 is provided with a slot 27 in which the bolt 2 is received, said bolt 26 moving upwardly in the slc 27 as the guard member is swung from its operativ position into its vertical folded position. When th guard member is in its operative position shown in Fig. the bolt 26 rests on the bottom of the slot 27 and thu holds the guard member from downward movemen The bolt 26 is provided with a wing nut 30 which, whe tightened, clamps the lower end of the brace firml against the side member 5, thus locking the guard merr her in its adjusted position.

The said frame is shown as provided with hook shaped hangers 31 by which the seat structure can b hung over the back of an automobile seat and als other smaller hangers 31a by which the seat may b hung over the back of a chair, thereby to provide high chair which a child can use as a dining table. Thes hangers are pivotally secured to the outwardly extent ing upper ends 48 of the side members 5 as shown at 3 so that they can be swung from a folded position whe the seat is to be stored into an operative position, show in full lines Fig. l with respect to the hangers 31, whe the seat is to be mounted on the back of an automobil seat. The dotted line position of the small hangers 31 shows their operative position.

With this construction, when the guard member 1 is in its lowered operative position shown in Fig. I there will be an opening 35 between the free end 22 t the leg 15 of the guard mmeber and the side membe 5 through which a child may be moved in a horizont: direction to place him on the seat 6 or remove hir therefrom.

If desired, an auxiliary guard member 40 in the on of a strap may be used to prevent the occupant of th seat from moving off from the seat through the ope space 35. This strap 40 is detachably secured to one two rigs 43, both of which are carried by the upper em of the side members 5.

The seat member 6 has a strap 46 secured theret which is adapted to be detachably secured by any sui able separable fastening device, as shown at 47, to tl: leg 15 of the guard member when it is in its horizont: operative position as shown in Fig. l.

I claim:

In a guard member for a childs car seat of the ty presenting a supporting frame having two upright sic members, one at each side of the frame, and a seat men ber hinged to the frame at the bottom thereof, the comb nation with said upright side members, of a horizont:

uard-supporting member extending from one side memer to the other and pivotally connected to both side iembers to turn about a horizontal axis, a rigid U- haped rectangular guard member having two horizontal arallel legs connected at one end by a straight bridge ortion, one of said legs overlying and extending lengthrise of the guard-supporting member, means rigidly seuring said leg to the guard-supporting member, the ther leg having a free end and being spaced from the uard-supporting member by a distance substantially qual to the length of said bridge portion, said guard 1em'ber and the guard-supporting member being swingble as a unit about said horizontal axis between a foldd position in which the leg with the free end is in a .orizontal position above the guard-supporting member, nd an operative position in which said last-named leg 4 is approximately in the same horizontal plane as said guard-supporting member and in a position above the front edge of said seat member, there being an unobstructed space between the free end of said last-named leg and the guard-supporting member whereby a child can be placed on the seat behind the leg with the free end or removed from thevseat by a horizontal movement through said open space.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,548,016 Goldberg Apr. 10, 1951 2,668,583 Singer Feb. 9, 1954 2,690,787 Soltis Oct. 5, 1954 2,690,790 Linden Oct. 5, 1954 2,774,411 Berlin Dec. 18, 1956 

